Vitally important style question

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[Poll #708169]

Comments

[sevenstring.livejournal.com]

Firstly, I have fairly strong objections to the Stroustrup miscuddling (`int* x'). Secondly, I can think of a good reason to want to declare different levels of indirection in one line.

Consider the common case of building a list in the correct order.

  node *n, *head, **tail = &head;
  thing x;

  while ((x = getthing()) != END_MARKER) {
    n = CREATE(node);
    n->thing = x;
    *tail = n;
    tail = &n->next;
  }
  *tail = 0;

It just looks silly to me to have to declare head and tail on different lines just because of the difference in indirection levels.

Oh, and thirdly, C++ references are just evil and wrong.

[simont]

"miscuddling" has to be the best word I will encounter all day!

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a challenge to someone...